World Cup Podcast: The Rio Deal

On the latest Sports Retort, Jonathan Clegg joins us from Rio de Janeiro to size up all 32 World Cup teams, including his doubts about the heavily favored hosts. He takes part in our snake draft (results below), where somehow Brazil got selected fourth. He reveals that it’s surprisingly easy to watch NHL playoff games there and that the construction by the stadium he visited wasn’t finished when he visited Wednesday. He also answers for his column calling out affected American soccer fans, and confesses to having made tentative peace with Real Salt Lake. Imagining ourselves to be just the kind of uppity soccer fans Jon railed against, we rate Wes Anderson’s best movies.

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